How can I avoid Laravel replacing & with & when calling get_file_contents()? I always get a “Bad Request” response because of this,
which is not a problem when not using Laravel.
use file_get_contents(htmlspecialchars_decode($URL));
Answer：
Use htmlspecialchars to encode it back into the ampersand symbol. This will also work on &, <, >, " and optionally ' as I assume Laravel will also escape those too.
For example:
file_get_contents(htmlspecialchars($URL));
And optionally:
file_get_contents(htmlspecialchars($URL, ENT_QUOTES));
Answer：
I solve my problem just use the " instead ' when building string URL path like follow:
public function __construct($url, $username, $password)
{
$this->url = $url;
$this->params = 'send?username='.$username.'&password='.$password.'&dlr=no';
}
to:
public function __construct($url, $username, $password)
{
$this->url = $url;
$this->params = "send?username=".$username."&password=".$password."&dlr=no";
}
Instead of use file_get_contents() you can use guzzlehttp/guzzle you can use this link for installation, and following example to send request and get response:
$client = new Client([
'base_uri' => $this->url,
'timeout' => 1.0,
]);
$request = $client->request('POST', $params);
$response = $request->getBody()->getContents();
You can access the content’s of body by getContents() method, hop this help you.